An article from the December issue of .NET Developer's Journal discusses how to connect a device running the .NET Compact Framework with a Java back-end via CORBA. This article uses MiddSol's MinCor.NET , which is is an object request broker for the Compact...

I had a comment on the J# serialization post that I took as , "J# is insufficient to entice J2xE developers." J# isn't really about enticing developers "away from" a different platform. [ by my view, that is a pretty narrow way of looking at the world...

No surprise here - using Java binary serialization is a bit faster than using XML serialization when sending messages between a Java app and a .NET app via MQSeries. But what may be surprising is the performance delta - not really that much. About 25% in my tests. YMMV....

Quiz: What do you think? Java has a binary serialization format. .NET has J#, which includes the JDK 1.1.4 class libraries, which includes Java serialization. Will it be possible for a Java app running under JDK 1.4 to serialize an object graph to a stream...